Sexuality. Many, many other challenges too. During these and other periods of stress, especially over the last few centuries some have thought and argued the Catholic Church might become irrelevant. Disappear into the dust of history. My guess is says instead of being overwhelmed by modern times come the churches not only survived as it clearly has, but is actually key agent of change for the whole world. He is george whiteoak, catholic scholar and distinguished fellow with ethics policy centerpiece also wrote more than two dozen books and closing his latest the irony of catholic history how the church rediscovered itself and challenge the modern world to reform. George thank you for being here. Lets start with the book and pick this up right with the title. Whats ironic about the church, the churchs response. Whats ironic about it jerry, is a relationship that started with a lot of mutual head knocking. Vote tear, crying, crush the infini, folks hurling thunderbolts at maternity and a
Changing views on marriage and sexuality. Many, many other challenges too. During these and other periods of stress, especially over the last few centuries some have thought and argued the Catholic Church might become irrelevant. Disappear into the dust of history. My guess is says instead of being overwhelmed by modern times come the churches not only survived as it clearly has, but is actually key agent of change for the whole world. He is george whiteoak, catholic scholar and distinguished fellow with ethics policy centerpiece also wrote more than two dozen books and closing his latest the irony of catholic history how the church rediscovered itself and challenge the modern world to reform. George thank you for being here. Lets start with the book and pick this up right with the title. Whats ironic about the church, the churchs response. Whats ironic about it jerry, is a relationship that started with a lot of mutual head knocking. Vote tear, crying, crush the infini, folks hurling
So the focus has to be getting to net zero carbon by 2050, and anything that distracts that that will just make it more and more difficult, but if we have big arguments about policy and ownership structures, all we do is slow everything down, and that is the worst thing we could do right now. Right now we need to be speeding up. Labour plans to nationalise the Big Six Energy suppliers and divide their assets, workforce and customers into m regional agencies. Along with energy, the rail industry, water, the royal mail and bts broadband business would also be nationalised. How much would it cost . Tricky one. Labour Say Parliament would decide how much to pay the current owners, which include Workers Pension funds, but the independent ifs estimate it would add at least £200 billion to government debt, but the government would collect the revenue, apart from broadband, which it eventually wants to give away for free. Arguments about whether the government or the private sector is better
The energy supplier, npower, is to cut to up to a500 jobs in the uk, as part of restructuring plans to make it more profitable. Three call centres, in sunderland, hull and worcester could be closed. Our economics correspondent, andy verity has more details. Sunderland, where workers used to be told that manufacturing was the past and call centres were the future. Not any more. A few miles away, near the town of houghton le spring, 2500 Call Centre Workers were among those told by npower today theirjobs were going. Disappointment, but its a shame, theres nothing else we can do. Ill take it one step at a time. Im still going to do myjob, still going to do the best i can, and take it from there. Its a heavy blow for an area already reeling from bad economic news. The future does look bleak, to be honest. Youve got tata, youve got british gas. For 2000 people to lose theirjob, what else is going to replace thatjob . Where are they going to go . Its just another nail in the coffin in this a
England are chasing new zealands first innings score of 375 in the second test in hamilton as their hopes of levelling the series fade. Are bitterly cold start to the weekend with a hard frost and some fog out there. But, it is going to bea dry fog out there. But, it is going to be a dry story for many of us this weekend with lots of sparkling winter sunshine. All the details coming up shortly. Its saturday the 30th of november. Our top story the man who carried out a terror attack on London Bridge yesterday was a convicted terrorist. Two people, a man and a woman, were stabbed to death. The attacker named as 28 year old usman khan was shot dead by an armed officer. He had beenjailed in 2012 for a plot to bomb the London Stock Exchange and set up a terrorist Training Camp, but was freed on licence a year ago. Simonjones has this report. Terror returns to the streets of london. A man and a woman killed. Now the question is, how was this allowed to happen . Fit pictures of film from the